Guide Course

We offer some model courses below.
We’ll make a plan with the customers who applied asking ones’ preferences. Customers are free from changing the items as well as attaching one to another.


Course No. : 1
Title : Morioka Castle and Nanbu Clan
Time : 2 hours

Route : Morioka History & Culture Museum (Display of the Edoperiod’s culture and samurai life, Horse Parade, Floats for the traditional event from the Edo period ⇒  Morioka Castle SitePark (Great stone walls featuring the Morioka domain’s prosperities) ⇒Sakurayama Shrine (Nanbu Clan’s main shrine) ⇒ Time Bell*Nanbu clan lived in this area for about 700 years, which is one of the longest as one clan ruled one area in the history of Japan.


Course No. : 2
Title : Konya-cho ~ Culture from the Edo PeriodTime : 2 hours

Route : Morioka History & Culture Museum ⇒ Rock SplittingCherry 
Tree (a national natural monument) ⇒ Kaminohashi Bridge 
(400years old railings) ⇒ Kaji-cho Mile Stone ⇒Kikunotsukasa 
Sake Brewery ⇒ Fire Watch Tower (an old Western-style wooden 
house) ⇒ Sirasawa Senbei (a Japanese cracker factory&shop) ⇒
Soshi-do (an indigo dye house) ⇒ Gozaku (a traditional utensil 
shop) ⇒ Kamasada (an ironware factory &shop) ⇒ IwateBank Red 
Brick Building


Course No. : 3
Title : Machiya ~ Edo Period’s Marchant Life (Nataya-cho)Time : 2 hours

Route : Morioka Machiya Story Museum (an old sake brewery 
building) ⇒ Daiji-shimizu (a public well used from the Edoperiod) ⇒
Daiji-shimizu Oyasumi-dokoro (a traditional merchant house) ⇒
Asabiraki Sake Brewery ⇒ 16 Arhat Statues ⇒ Hachimangu 
Shrine ⇒ Seiryusui-well ⇒ Sitamachi-shiryoukan (a museum 
displaying medieval and modern people’s life)


Course No. : 4
Title : Iwate’s Legend & Five Hundred StatuesTime : 2 hours

Route : Morioka Station ⇒ Mitsuishi Shrine (three boulders lining in 
the premises of the shrine, which is the origin of the name of the 
prefecture) ⇒ Ho-onji Temple & Five Hundred Arhat Statures
(about 300 years old five hundred wooden Arhat statues are 
displayed in the temple)


Course No. : 5
Title : Morioka City Walking from the StationTime : 2 hours

Route : Morioka Station ⇒ Kaiunbashi Bridge ⇒ Kippushi Ryokuchi
(a newly constructed modern area) ⇒ Zaimoku-cho ⇒ Kogensha
(aworld-wide known writer Kenji Miyazawa’s display) ⇒ Ono-
sensaisho (an indigo dye house) ⇒ Takuboku New-wed House 
(aworld-wide known poet Takuboku Ishikawa lived in this Edo built 
house) ⇒ Rock Splitting Cherry Tree ⇒ Morioka Castle SitePark 
⇒ RaraIwate (an Iwate prefectural craftwork shop)


Other Areas

Shiwa-jo Castle Site

The site constructed in 802, the Heian Period, was excavated. We can see some restored facilities as well as remains displayed in the museum.(A half day course)

Koiwai Farm

Koiwai Farm is one of the biggest private farms in Japan.You can enjoy various animal shows as well as tours of its rich nature and historical buildings of farming.(A half day course)⇒Koiwai Farm’s website (English)

Morioka Handcrafts Village

Over 14 different workshops in Nanbu ironware, dyeing, traditional children’s toys, confectionery, etc. You can see demonstration by artisans.(A half day course)⇒Morioka Handcraft Park’s website (English is available)

Morioka Zoological Park “ZOOMO”

(A half day course)⇒Morioka Zoological Park’s website (Japanese)